About two-thirds of Antarctic tourists land on the continent. The visitors can threaten fragile ecosystems by: Even when ...

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...

Actress Liu Tao, an active advocate for climate change awareness, shared her experiences visiting glaciers in the Xizang autonomous region. Liu also read an emotional essay written by a high school ...

The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal's Upper Mustang, more than 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist village lived by ...

In 2022, a groundbreaking mission led by scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) used an ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

An international study using glacier models shows that even stabilizing temperatures at today’s levels would still cause ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...

Ice theft in Antarctica: A glacier stealing ice from its neighbour, raising sea levels, as well as concerns TOI Science Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 17, 2025, 11:25 IST ...